Challenges That Change Us

210 {Brendan Cullen Pt 2} A farmer from Broken Hill swimming the English Channel

29 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. Imagine being a regional farmer living in remote Australia. Then imagine deciding to s...

209 {Brendan Cullen Pt 1} A Farmer’s Story of Sexual Abuse, Silence and Depression

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. We know remote and regional Australia has often been a space where mental health and a...

208 {Laura Schiller} Diagnosed with bipolar at 40

15 Mar 2026

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Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  We’ve heard before about receiving a diagnosis later in life, but imagine the ...

207 {Robyn Cameron Pt 2} Trafficked from the age of 3 and survived. NOW Robyn is thriving.

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. TW: child sexual abuse and traffickingThis is part 2 of Robyn Cameron’s incredibly t...

206 {Robyn Cameron Pt 1} Healing from the Cancer of Cults

01 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Book in for our next burnout masterclass here.Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. TW: child sexual abuse and traffickingWe...

205 {Ken Meldrum} A father’s darkest day with suicidal ideations

22 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Book in for our next burnout masterclass here.Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. Trigger warning: suicide and suicidal id...

204 {Ro Clark} I became paralysed and had no idea why

15 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Challenges That Change Us –Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. We’ve talked about experiencing a health issue and not ...

203 {Vanessa de Sauty} A different perspective on how to make 2026 your year

08 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. We often talk about how challenges shape us, but planning and prevention are just as p...

202 {Claire Torkington} Facing near death experiences and walking away

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. Claire Torkington has lived a life. That means there have been big highs, as well as s...

Episode feature: {Dante Amato} The recovery from childhood sexual abuse and abandonment

01 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hey all! We had a bit of a glitch with this weeks episode. It will be coming soon, but until it does I wanted to take a walk down memory lane and high...

201 {Dave Payne Part 2} Recovering from PSTD after war

25 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Challenges That Change Us –Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. Trigger warning: suicide, depression, acts of war.Many of...

200 {Dave Payne} The emotional impact of war

18 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Trigger warning: suicide, depression, acts of war.Many of us have seen war movies, but nothing can truly explain the horrors and intensity of war. So ...

199 {Alison Mau} Publicly sharing the truth about my child sexual abuse

11 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Trigger warning: sexual abuse For many survivors of child sexual abuse, the...

198 {Ali Flynn} The cost of being strong all the time

04 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. Welcome to 2026! For many 2025 was a pretty hard year, and some of you may have just b...

197 {Lenny Ravich Pt 2} Why I call myself a narcissist

28 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. What is it like to be a narcissist? And how can. Narcissist do good in the world?This ...

196 {Lenny Ravich Pt 1} How I stopped the generational trauma I was perpetuating

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. We have heard from the victims of generational trauma from it’s victims, but what ab...

195 {Lara Hamilton} Aiming for the Olympics with a chronic illness

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. Lara Hamilton is an Australian Trail Runner, Ski-Mountaineer, DJ & Vocalist, and D...

194 {John Griffith} Started drinking at 5, in rehab by 18

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here.Trig...

193 {Ali Flynn} The 11 big lessons from 2025

30 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here.This...

192 {Nikole Cassin} Why making $12m in a year didn’t heal my childhood trauma

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here.Trig...

191 {Melanie Staudt Pt. 2} When the medical system repeatedly missed my cancer

16 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here.The ...

190 {Melanie Staudt} Diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here.Canc...

189 {Steve Pocock} Overcoming the trauma of fleeing Zimbabwe and then returning with purpose

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. Steve Pocock’s life has been shaped by early loss - and by what can grow from it.&nb...

188 {Sarah Davis Pt 2} Pushing the limits cycling across Australia

26 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership SummitTo sign up for our difficult ...

187 {Sarah Davis Pt 1} Facing hippos, rapids and near death experiences on the Nile

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership SummitTo sign up for our difficult ...

186 {Clifford Morgan} A psychologists take on imposter syndrome

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership SummitTo sign up for our difficult ...

185 {Courtney Burchard} How the Hannah Clarke murder triggered a forensic officer’s PTSD

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership SummitTo sign up for our difficult ...

184 {Lisa Cox OAM} Losing your toes, fingertips and leg from Strep A

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership SummitTo sign up for our difficult ...

183 {Yummi Nguyen} The recovery journey from childhood family trauma

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SINGAPORE workshop : Engagement and burnout in the workplace INDIA workshop: High Performance Leadership SummitTo sign up for our difficult ...

182 {Allan Parker} From being unable to read to micro behavioural scientist

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here.I’...

181 {Diana Connell part 2} The struggles of starting again after domestic violence

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here.&nbs...

180 {Diana Connell} I had no idea I was living in a domestic violence relationship

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.Trigger warning: D...

179 {Tina Kendall-Davis} Why keeping quiet about stress on the farm can be fatal

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. There is a g...

178 {Lora Starling} Starting again after a business partnership break down

17 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Challenges That Change Us – Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a ...

177 {Ali Flynn} 5 ways to anchor yourself in uncertain times

10 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. I am fresh b...

176 {Ann Marie Grace} How breath work helped me break free from depression

03 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Challenges That Change Us –Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min...

175 {Nick Gorman} How my anxiety was masked by the stress of my job

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. Anxiety and ...

174 {Alyson Richelle} Why I Didn’t Know I Was in an Abusive Relationship

20 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. Every time w...

173 {Andrew Draney} The long term trauma from surviving a fatal car crash at 5

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. When trauma ...

172 {Pete Winmill} How Ayahuasca helped me overcome my acne induced shame

06 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. By now we kn...

171 - An example of a counselling session

22 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. I have spoke...

170 {Rachel Pietsch} Breaking free from a highly controlling religious upbringing

15 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. The environm...

169 {Jourdi Bleu} Escaping the grip of a destructive drug addiction

08 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.Trigger warning: ...

168 {Anna Grosman} The truth behind running an escort business

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.This week we are e...

167 {Skye Shannon} How spina bifida and an amputation affected my personal identity

25 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. The relation...

166 {Michelle Niemeyer} Healing an autoimmune illness after doctors said it couldn’t happen

18 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.We’ve heard coun...

BONUS: How to treat burn out when you’re in it

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. Welcome to o...

165 {Tara J Lal} Losing your brother to suicide and the resilience that follows

11 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. Trigger war...

164 {Annette Densham} Navigating a business partnership breakdown

04 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. Imagine pour...

BONUS: Burnout prevention strategies we should all know

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE. Welcome to t...

163 {Andreea Kindryd} The impact of sexual assault and suicide on self worth

27 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERETrigger warning: se...

162 {Mel Lechte} Getting hit by a car at almost 100 km/h

20 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE. We often ask guests if they would have made the changes in their life if they hadn’...

BONUS: A psychologist helps us identify burn out

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz.Grab your burnout workbook HERE. If you would like us to work with your team book a 30 min chat HERE.IN PERSON MASTERCL...

161 {Ali Flynn} My insights from the last 160 episodes

13 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  So here’s a quick peek behind the curtain. This past week or so has been real...

160 {Jules Brooke} Hurdles in a woman's entrepreneur career

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE. Jules Brooke has lived a life full of twists, turns and more experiences from childho...

159 {Kathryn Elliott} I thought my binge drinking was normal

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Try our FREE burnout quiz or grab your burnout workbook HERE.  Trigger warning: AlcoholAustralians have a complicated relationship with alco...

158 {Lisa Britcliffe} The gift of losing $100k overnight

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode we are delving into the relationship between faith, and the ability to recover from a challenge.Lisa Britcliffe was on a search f...

157 {Beau Frith} Undiagnosed ADHD until 37 years old

16 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ADHD diagnosis is trending on social media a lot, but what does it actually mean to live with it? And what does it feel like to be diagnosed with it a...

156 {Jen Harwood} From domestic violence to building a million dollar business

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trigger warning: Domestic violenceWe’ve spoken a lot on this podcast about family violence that starts when a child is young, but what about the ins...

155 {Adam Fraser} The science behind why challenges change us

02 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks episode is a little different. We now how many people have encountered challenges and their individual ways that they have overcome them, b...

154 {Francesca Emerson} Escaped husbands murder attempt and became a playboy bunny

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Some people have just lived a bigger life than the rest of us, but that also means they have encountered more challenges too and Francesca Emerson has...

153 {Kevin Humphreys} A Blackhawk helicopter pilot's battle with suicidal ideations

16 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Book into the RHPLS: regional high performance leadership tour: https://events.highperformanceleadershipsummit.com.au/regional-tour-2025Work with me: ...

152 {Pete Harris Pt 2} PTSD 18 months after a near fatal accident

09 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Book into the RHPLS: regional high performance leadership tour: https://events.highperformanceleadershipsummit.com.au/regional-tour-2025Work with me: ...

151 {Pete Harris Pt 1} The bike accident that should have Killed Me

02 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all heard stories of people surviving accidents that should have killed them, but when it happened to Pete Harris it wasn’t just a case of ‘...

150 {Erin Benjamin} Stroke at 30, just after married

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks episode is a story close to my heart. Not just because it’s a close friend of mine, but because it shares the life altering and terrifyin...

149 {Matt Butler} Facing Muscular Dystrophy While Being a Father

19 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Challenges That Change Us – Finding out you have a degenerative disease is a huge, life altering discovery, and for a parent it can be even mor...

148 {Richard Tombs} From International Rugby to living with a wheelchair

12 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The sudden impact of an unexpected injury can have instant, life changing consequences, and that was the case for Richard Tombs when a freak accident ...

147 {Barbra Schulte} Losing your son to cancer at 15 years old

05 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One experience that all parents hope they never have to go through is losing their child. The grief and loss can be overwhelming and figuring out how ...

146 {Ali Flynn} How to navigate adversity in 2025

29 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you’d like to do more work on resilience check out our course here. Can you believe we have made it to the end of 2024?I know the past year ...

145 {Beau Robinson} Overcoming loss and loneliness as an elite athlete

22 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One person whose journey to success could be described as a struggled laced with tragedy is Beau Robinson.Having experienced multiple attempts and hur...

144 { Caroline Brunne} Sexually abused from the age of 10

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s shown time and time again that family abuse and violence is rife in our communities, and it’s often the other family members who keep things ...

143 {Toby Inglis} The harsh realities of life as a young pro cyclist

08 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of 'Challenges That Change Us,' we are joined by 18-year-old cyclist Toby Inglis, who details his extraordinary journey in the sport. ...

142 {Craig Hoyle} The cost of being gay in a high control religious sect

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve had guests speak about growing up in a controlling religious sect before, but for this episode we are getting a close up look at what it was l...

141 {Nma Emeh} Struggling with body image

24 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The impacts that body image beliefs can have on limiting our ability to grow and succeed are honestly hard to quantify, but make no mistake, they can ...

140 {Malika Reese} Robbed, raped and run over

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Trigger warning: Child sexual abuse We’ve said before that survivors of child sexual abuse often end up more resilient than others, purely beca...

139 {Nathan Stapleton Pt2} Rediscovering fatherhood as a quadraplegic

10 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to part 2 of our chat with the incredible Nathan Stapleton.In our last episode Nathan shared the highs and lows of life in elite sport, and im...

138 {Nathan Stapleton pt 1} The mindset an NRL player develops from adversity in elite sports

03 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Few people know what is required mentally to achieve at the highest level of elite sport, and fewer still know what it’s like to have to apply that ...

137 {Julie Allyson} From teenage motherhood to executive leader

27 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Motherhood is a big journey for any woman, but many of us consider that taking that step in your teenage years to be limiting and negative.Julie Allys...

136 {Stephanie Burns Part 2} A Confident Public Speaker with a Hidden Struggle in Social Situations

20 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Trigger warning: AnxietyWelcome to part two of our chat with Stephanie Burns.In part one Stephanie shared her remarkable life and some of the huge cha...

135 {Stephanie Burns Part 1} Kicked out at 15, became human behaviour expert and military trailblazer

13 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Trigger warning: domestic violenceToday we are joined by someone who has truly lived a life of challenges, lessons and intriguing turns.From navigatin...

134 {Desiree Stanley} How running taught me to overcome challenges

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What exactly does it take to go from not being able to run to the end of your block, to running ultr marathons?Desiree Stanley is the host of the Pock...

133 {Emily-Jayne Sarrof} When Burnout Leads to a Domestic Violence Relationship

29 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Trigger warning: domestic violence and mental healthWhen it comes to domestic violence, no two situations are the same. That is why it can be so hard ...